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Games and DemosI am a Spectrum newbie. In the 80s i've never had one! Now i have the problem, that there are 1000s of Games and Demos. I want to know what Games and…
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"Henrietta's Book of Spells"??
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Requesting a little help to identify the purpose of this 'add-on' to my Issue 2Hi everyone First of all it's my first post here so please go easy on me! I'm grateful to be accepted into your fine little club :smile: I probabl…
... the relevant chapter in csmith's book, it was obvious that ... cockroach but if it's not required then it ... the attic from the 80's. Unfortunately I don't ... bit the dust. Here's the code, which comes ... from mcleod_ideafix's site.
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Gaddafi capturedThe Libyan forces are claiming to have captured Col. Gaddafi, apparently they shot him in both legs to stop him running away!!
... that links to the book/DVD they are trying ... the content of his book or whoever's book?
... almost any politician has written a book ... to any book. its content it's false just ... it.
that's pretty useless.
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Gaddafi capturedThe Libyan forces are claiming to have captured Col. Gaddafi, apparently they shot him in both legs to stop him running away!!
... the content of his book or whoever's book?
almost ... any politician has written a book and ... concept to any book. its content it's false just because ... about it.
that's pretty useless.
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Up/Down Left/Right scrollCan anybody give a newbie some pointer to simple one char scrolling by pixel? I've looked at a lot of resources, but as you can imagine, it's all a …
Hewson's book 40 Best Machine Code Routines has a section on scroll routines, with a thorough explanation of each one. There's a PDF in the WoS archive. -
New SpecBAS available - v0.710Been a while, but I've just uploaded the latest build of SpecBAS. This one now supports tilemaps (with rotation and scaling) and added OVER mode (XO…
... this is limited to the user's Windows data folder, for safety ... 's sake? Not that it matters ... to me, as there's no way I'll trust ... -
Why are modern recording artists so lazy?In the 60s and 70s artists would release an album every year (The Beatles released 12 in 8 years). Nowadays 2/3 years is the norm, sometimes longer. …
I think everyone should take a leaf out of Omar Rodriguez Lopez's book, I think he released something like eight albums last year alone! :grin: -
The Sinclair Myth - New Scentist June 12 1986I thought you'd all find this particularly interesting, so I scanned it especially for the holidays! Merry Christmas! [url]http://www.zxdesign.info…
... magazine article was written, it's abundantly clear that the words ... were merely a rich kid's expensive plaything. Essentially, from the ... . I don't think it's just ignorance, as Zagreb stated ... graphics found in Gaetano Marano's book I scanned and uploaded to ... -
FPGA ZX SpectrumJust wonder: how many of you would buy "new hardware based" and "in case" ZX Spectrum based on FPGA? ;) [url]http://www.fpgaarcade.com/[/url]
... 48K ULA (it's based on Chris Smith's book); it supports ULA ... -
Testing Z80 op codesHappy new year all! I'm currently testing my Z80 emulator (hand written from scratch in C#) and I've possibly now gone insane, testing is taking hug…
... have used is Rodney Zaks book for reference then your gonna ... that, covers errors in Zak's book, and the undocumented op-code ... with your Z80 Core it's tricky at times but not ... -
ahh..sooo close :) Spec128k+ RGB on LCD monitor helpHello, Was trying out RGB on my 128k+ and a Samsung Syncmaster 204 lcd monitor. Tried this monitor with a Genesis/Megadrive and a SNES and works real…
... have to look in csmith's book. Not all of those 312 ... -
Which Speccy game had best border effectsIn truth, I'm just trying to remember a game from my youth, and the amazing border effect during pause is the only thing I can clearly recall about i…
... ULA revision according to csmith's book.
What it actually ... for an average telly that's been set up properly the ... left.
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Which Speccy game had best border effectsIn truth, I'm just trying to remember a game from my youth, and the amazing border effect during pause is the only thing I can clearly recall about i…
... ULA revision according to csmith's book.
What it actually ... for an average telly that's been set up properly the ... left.
p.s. sorry Arjun, chev wasn't ... -
Which Speccy game had best border effectsIn truth, I'm just trying to remember a game from my youth, and the amazing border effect during pause is the only thing I can clearly recall about i…
... ULA revision according to csmith's book.
What it actually ... for an average telly that's been set up properly the ... at the same time that's when I notice the shift ... -
Creating a new game - AssemblySo... finally I?m studying Assembly Z80... after 36 years. :) Well... it?s sooooooooooooo hard to make a game using Assembly? I bought a book (Spectr…
... % if you follow the Tang book through to completion you'll ... end of the book.
Jonathan Cauldwell's tutorial is frankly ... my opinion. I read Tang's book and it was marvellous to ... is vast. Slot in Egghead's tutorial at that point though ... -
Network BrainachesIve got an annoying problem with my network. My set up is 1 Windows 7 PC (Wired Connection) 2 Original Xboxs (XBMC) (Wired Connection) 1 Xbox 360 (…
... problem at work with a user's laptop not too long ago ... -
Creating a new game - AssemblySo... finally I?m studying Assembly Z80... after 36 years. :) Well... it?s sooooooooooooo hard to make a game using Assembly? I bought a book (Spectr…
... the screen :D Hope there's more to come in the ... 've started with Ian Sinclair's book, it's really illuminating - now I ... -
Creating a new game - AssemblySo... finally I?m studying Assembly Z80... after 36 years. :) Well... it?s sooooooooooooo hard to make a game using Assembly? I bought a book (Spectr…
... the screen :D Hope there's more to come in the ... 've started with Ian Sinclair's book, it's really illuminating - now I ... -
3rd Trashman game found for CPC[url]http://www.cpcwiki.eu/forum/games/a-rare-game-for-cpc-wiki/[/url] What? No Spectrum version? Grrrrr! :-o
[QUOTE=AndyC;593813]So, who's doing the Speccy port then? ;-)[/ ... the screen :D Hope there's more to come in the ... 've started with Ian Sinclair's book, it's really illuminating - now I ... -
1984I'm just reading 1984, I've never read the book before. I was never a major book worm (unless technical manuals and papers). Oh my, what a world I h…
... in the politics of the book then you really, really ... a frequently misunderstood book*). Personally I think he's probably the ... to be Communism (it's supposed to be Oligarchical Collectivism ... described in detail in Goldstein's book, which has emerged, quite ... -
1984I'm just reading 1984, I've never read the book before. I was never a major book worm (unless technical manuals and papers). Oh my, what a world I h…
... world of 1984, it's about people in our ... (I think that's the character's name) makes a ... taking the p**s and echoing Orwell's own sentiments ... the core subject of the book - totalitarian power and ... in particular through Goldstein's book; much of the surrounding ... -
How should an emulator handle being closed?A quick poll: what do you think an emulator [i]should[/i] do when it's closed and restarted? If you think the answer is "it should be configurable", …
By default, if I ever get the chance to go back to ZXSpin, I'd like to have a hotkey that loads the state the emulator was in when last close. Otherwise, wipe memory and start clean in the user's default hardware configuration.
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IF....AND......THEN statementsSorry...more questions Now initially I thought this should work....but now thinking about it it is doomed to fail as if the player's x co ordinate a…
... are very good in this book but I'm not sure ... 75-80 of Ian Logan's book "Understanding Your Spectrum" or pages ... 44-48 of William Tang's book "Spectrum Machine Language for the ... -
IF....AND......THEN statementsSorry...more questions Now initially I thought this should work....but now thinking about it it is doomed to fail as if the player's x co ordinate a…
... beginner, I find william tang's book does not teach anything. it ... 's just an introductory book about assembler terms.
s function, is it good, is ... ?" no answer.
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IF....AND......THEN statementsSorry...more questions Now initially I thought this should work....but now thinking about it it is doomed to fail as if the player's x co ordinate a…
... beginner, I find william tang's book does not teach anything. it ... 's just an introductory book about assembler terms.
s function, is it good, ... ?" no answer.
it's a dictionary.[/QUOTE]
IF....AND......THEN statementsSorry...more questions Now initially I thought this should work....but now thinking about it it is doomed to fail as if the player's x co ordinate a…
... with karingal that Toni Baker's book does a lot more to ... the enigma than any other book. Having said that, no one ... book will teach you everything so it's quite alright ...A guy collects one million $ for a retro style gameI'm not sure if there is a thread here about it already: [url]http://uk.pc.ign.com/articles/121/1218396p1.html[/url] Basically a game creator annou…
... read half of Richard Branson's book "How I Made Millions and ... Didn't" (or whatever it's called) then whilst he did ... lot on his own it's not as if he didn ... . Hmmmm. Not sure if that's my definition of slumming it ...SpiffyBecause there aren't enough emulators already... [url=https://github.com/ec429/spiffy]Spiffy[/url] is my 48k Spectrum emulator, for Linux. Right no…
... be synchronised by the emulator's clock?[/quote]
Yes, I ... 'd highly recommend reading Chris's book - My reading of it was ... though.[/quote]
Indeed; that's why I need to run ...4116 SRAM replacement (and ULA timings).As mentioned in another thread, I have spent quite a lot of time experimenting with different circuits and components for using a static RAM IC to re…
... to be that and it's something I'll probably look ... only about 20ns and that's exactly the minimum time given ... being a problem. Chris Smith's book says this means there is ...
